A bit of a slow one

Well it seems to have been a bit of a slow week in some ways.

I spent most of it in Tokyo again, flying up on Monday afternoon, arriving back about 9pm on Friday. It was a busy trip, as there is lots going on at the moment.

Saturday morning we bounced out of bed, and out to the coffee shop (first things first). On the list was looking at cars, buying a desk, buying a stepladder, getting an office chair, and a few other bits and pieces. We managed to have coffee/bagels, then purchase a desk from Ikea. Having realised that it's very difficult to carry the desk around the other places we needed to go, we headed home and put the desk together. It's a small desk (120cm x 80cm) but still manages to take up most of the room in the office/spare room.

Which reminds me - we sold the spare bed for HKD 600 last weekend. There's a website called AsiaXPat with a classified ads section. We stuck the bed on the site on Friday night, and by 10am on Saturday we'd had a call. By 3pm the bed was spoken for. They sent their "Man With a Van" around during the week to collect. Later on Saturday afternoon we decided (given the success of the bed) to get rid of the table as well. The table was a pretty cheap purchase in KL, so we decided to offer it free for collection. Advertised about 3pm, we had the first call by about 7pm. Sold!

So now we have a smidgen more room available, hence the office desk, and the stepladder. The stepladder is to enable us to store some of the dining chairs out of the way on top of the wardrobes. I've managed to get two of them up there yesterday afternoon.

Anyway, back to yesterday's story. After putting the desk together, we ended up heading out again around 4pm to purchase the aforementioned stepladder, plus something to eat for dinner. Returning to the house, we watched the first three episodes of House. Hugh Laurie on fine form. Incidentally I realised that the TV channel in Tokyo is replaying House from the start - I saw the first episode earlier this week.

This morning's epistle comes to you courtesy of Pacific Coffee in Vicwood Plaza (Des Vouex Rdoad).